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...different. When professors fail to punctually perform their teaching responsibilities before, during, and after the school year, students suffer. Unfortunately, a disturbingly large number of Harvard faculty are currently shirking their responsibility by not posting course syllabi online in a timely manner. On Wednesday, students working for the textbook discount website CrimsonReading.org visited the webpages of 231 popular courses and found only 42 syllabi. That only 18 percent of professors cared enough to post their syllabi is, quite simply, pathetic. This is troubling given the crucial role online syllabi play in students’ pre-shopping week planning. Many students...
Coop President Jerry P. Murphy ’73 said yesterday that when approached by the UC a few months ago, the Coop could not survive financially if it had to share textbook information...
...founded by UC representative Tom D. Hadfield ’08, CrimsonReading.org allows undergraduate textbook shoppers to view Coop prices alongside those charged by other retailers, such as Half.com and Amazon.com. Books are quickly being added to the database in anticipation of the start of shopping period on Monday, according to site director Jon T. Staff...
...Staff said the work of preparing the site has not been as efficient as it might have been had College administrators and Coop officials signed on to a UC proposal last spring that would have promoted the sharing of textbook information between Crimson Reading and the Coop, which traditionally collects lists of required books from professors each year...
...that sense, the speech Wednesday was textbook Bush, contrasting optimistic promises of regional liberty with warnings of an ever-expanding threat should America lose in Iraq. But the comparison to Vietnam took many observers by surprise, seeming not only inapt but also unnecessarily risky. Why undermine the historical arguments about Iraq with the specter of the Vietnam quagmire, especially after the President had gone out of his way several months ago to reject critics' charges that Iraq was turning into just that...